Hi Don,
I have been asking this question also for some time. Apart from
some sales overtures I haven't really recieved much, however, I have
hunted around and learned of a set of scripts and code called
"itsodepend". This was prepared for AIXV3R2 so needs porting
and is also not made for Netview V5. I am currently trying to
get it updated. The itsodepend facility seems to enable the
automated creation of Collections which are used to facilitate the
determination of what is behind what. It is really intended to
be used in conjunction with TEC but I seem to recall that some
option has been included to provide similar functionality at the
ruleset level ( don't quote me on that though ).
As things stand I'm not sure how useful this will be to you but it
might be be something. I believe you can find the details of this
application amongst the IBM Redbooks on the Web.
Regards,
Simon Long
Nettrack Technical Solutions Pty Ltd
Regards,
Simon Long
Don Mahler wrote:
> does anyone know of a way to dump the netview topology, such that
> automation could see what is behind what. for example a tree structure
> that would show that you have router1, link1, router2, serv1, server2
> (server2 is behind router2 and router1)
>
> I need this in all sorts of correlation work outside Netview and would
> rather not rediscover what netview already knows. For example, I am being
> beaten by my operations staff because I cannot turn off paging for all
> devices behind a router, for those alerts that are generated by non-NetView
> automation.
>
> Can this linkage can be derived from an ovtopodump (upstream hosts?)
>
> any ideas?
>
> Don Mahler
> SAIC\Bellcore
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